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Henry Cass
Henry Cass (24 June 1903 – 15 March 1989) was a British director, particularly prolific in film in the horror and comedy genres. Previously an actor, he was also a prolific stage director of classical theatre at the Old Vic in the 1930s. In 1923, Lee DeForest filmed Cass for a short film ''Henry Cass Demonstration Film'' made in DeForest's Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The film was previewed at the Engineers Society of New York on 12 April 1923, and premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York on 15 April 1923 with 17 other short Phonofilms. He was married to the actress Joan Hopkins.McFarlane & Slide p.125 Filmography *''Lancashire Luck'' (1937) *'' 29 Acacia Avenue'' (1945) *'' The Glen Is Ours'' (1946) *'' The Glass Mountain'' (1949) *''No Place for Jennifer'' (1950) *'' Last Holiday'' (1950) *''Young Wives' Tale'' (1951) *'' Castle in the Air'' (1952) *''Father's Doing Fine'' (1952) *'' Breakaway'' (1955) *'' Windfall'' (1955) *''Reluctant Bride'' (1955) *'' No Smoking' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Hopkins
Joan Hopkins (31 August 1915 – 27 December 2002) was a British stage and film actress. During the late 1940s she appeared in starring roles in several productions, including Princess Charlotte in ''The First Gentleman'' and as Helen in the box office success ''The Weaker Sex'' (both 1948). Her final appearance was in the 1950 thriller ''Double Confession.'' After this she appeared in television for several years. She was married to the film director Henry Cass.McFarlane & Slide, p. 125. Filmography * ''We Dive at Dawn'' (1943) * ''Temptation Harbour'' (1947) * ''The First Gentleman'' (1948) * '' The Affairs of A Rogue'' (1948) * ''The Weaker Sex'' (1948) * ''Man on the Run'' (1949) * '' The Chiltern Hundreds'' (1949) * ''Double Confession ''Double Confession'' is a 1950 British crime film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, William Hartnell and Peter Lorre. The screenplay, written by William Templeton, is based on the novel, ''All On A Summer's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reluctant Bride
''Reluctant Bride'' (released in the U.S. as ''Two Grooms for a Bride'') is a 1955 British comedy film. Plot summary Jeff Longstreet and Laura Weeks are paired together to take care of a group of wild children whose parents are lost on an African safari. The children make attempts to press Jeff and Laura into a romantic relationship while breaking them away from their fiancees. Partial cast *John Carroll as Jeff Longstreet *Virginia Bruce as Laura Weeks * Brian Oulton as Professor Baker *Kay Callard as Lola Sinclair * Donald Stewart as Cadwell * Arthur Lowe as Mr. Fogarty Critical reception The '' Radio Times'' called it a "Far-fetched comedy" and rated it two out of five stars; while ''Sky Cinema Sky Cinema is a British subscription film service owned by Sky Group (a division of Comcast). In the United Kingdom, Sky Cinema channels currently broadcast on the Sky satellite and Virgin Media cable platforms, and in addition Sky Cinema o ...'' wrote "Hollywood stars Virgin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Deaths
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a large Exxon Valdez oil spill, oil spill; The Fall of the Berlin Wall begins the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and heralds German reunification; The United States United States invasion of Panama, invades Panama to depose Manuel Noriega; The Singing Revolution led to the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union; The stands of Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, Yorkshire, where the Hillsborough disaster occurred; 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Students demonstrate in Tiananmen Square, Beijing; many are killed by forces of the Chinese Communist Party., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1989 Loma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipknot. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard E
Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave", or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also probably in some cases a confusion with the Old Norse cognate ''Haward'' (''Hávarðr''), which means "high guard" and as a surname also with the unrelated Hayward. In some rare cases it is from the Old English ''eowu hierde'' "ewe herd". In Anglo-Norman the French digram ''-ou-'' was often rendered as ''-ow-'' such as ''tour'' → ''tower'', ''flour'' (western variant form of ''fleur'') → ''flower'', etc. (with svarabakhti). A diminutive is "Howie" and its shortened form is "Ward" (most common in the 19th century). Between 1900 and 1960, Howard ranked in the U.S. Top 200; between 1960 and 1990, it ranked in the U.S. Top 400; between 1990 and 2004, it ranked in the U.S. Top 600. People with the given name Howard or its variants include: Given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Give A Dog A Bone
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Give may refer to: making someone get or receive something from someone Places * Give, Denmark, a small town ** Give Municipality, a former municipality Music * ''Give'' (Balkan Beat Box album), 2012 album by Balkan Beat Box * ''Give'' (The Bad Plus album), the third studio album by The Bad Plus * "Give" (song), the third single by American country recording artist LeAnn Rimes * "Give" aka "Still Yawning Still Born" a song by Steve Peregrin Took recorded acoustically by his band Shagrat in 1971 and by Took solo in 1972 - released 1992/1995 * ''Give'' (EP), a 1998 EP and single by American rock band Cold See also * GAVE (other) * Given (other) * Giver (other) * Giving (other) Giving may refer to: * Gift, the transfer of something without the expectation of receiving something in return * Generosity, the habit of giving freely without expecting anything in return * Charity (practice), the giving of help to those in nee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hand (1960 Film)
''The Hand'' is a 1960 British horror film directed by Henry Cass and written by Ray Cooney and Tony Hilton. The film is memorable for its nightmarish premise and opening scene that belies its censorship certificate. Plot The story begins during the Burma campaign (mislabeled as '1946'), in which three captured British soldiers are threatened with torture if they refuse to divulge military information. Two refuse and have their hands chopped off. Some time later, in post-War London, a gentleman of the night is found with his hand surgically removed and £500 in his pockets. This begins a criminal investigation, returning the plot to the opening situation. Cast * Derek Bond as Roberts / Roger Crawshaw * Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Inspector Munyard * Ray Cooney as Sgt. David Pollitt * Reed De Rouen as Michael John Brodie * Bryan Coleman as George Adams * Walter Randall as Japanese commander * Tony Hilton as Police Sgt. Paul Foster * Harold Scott as Charlie Taplow * Gwenda Ewe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Who Couldn't Walk
A man is an adult male human. Prior to adulthood, a male human is referred to as a boy (a male child or adolescent). Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chromosome from the father. Sex differentiation of the male fetus is governed by the SRY gene on the Y chromosome. During puberty, hormones which stimulate androgen production result in the development of secondary sexual characteristics, thus exhibiting greater differences between the sexes. These include greater muscle mass, the growth of facial hair and a lower body fat composition. Male anatomy is distinguished from female anatomy by the male reproductive system, which includes the penis, testicles, sperm duct, prostate gland and the epididymis, and by secondary sex characteristics, including a narrower pelvis, narrower hips, and smaller breasts without mammary glands. Throughout human history, traditional gender roles have often defined an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Of The Vampire
''Blood of the Vampire'' is a 1958 British colour horror film directed by Henry Cass and starring Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, and Vincent Ball. The film was produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman for Tempean Films, from a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster. Many horror fans thought the feature was a Hammer Films production when it came out, due to its similar look and Sangster's writer's credit. The film's U.S. release was in October 1958 as a double feature with Universal's ''Monster on the Campus''. The film's storyline, set in Transylvania, is about a scientist who uses the inmates of a prison for the criminally insane as sources for his gruesome blood-typing and transfusion experiments that are keeping him alive. Plot A man's body wrapped in a shroud is shoved into a Transylvania grave in 1874. An executioner drives a stake through its heart. Immediately afterward, Carl, severely physically disabled, emerges from hiding and kills the gravedigger. Carl summons a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booby Trap (1957 Film)
Booby Trap is a 1957 black and white British comedy drama 'B' film, directed by Henry Cass and starring Tony Quinn, Harry Fowler and Sidney Tafler. Plot Professor Hasdane has invented an explosive fountain pen, which will explode if it hears the first chime of Big Ben. The absent-minded professor leaves his briefcase, containing the pen, in a taxi. The next customer in the taxi, Sammy the spiv, takes the case. He pawns the pen. Sammy and Hasdane subsequently trace the pen to a seedy club operated by narcotics gangster Hunter, who distributes his drugs in mock fountain pens. Hunter unwittingly mixes up the Professor's pen with his own pens, and escapes pursued by the police. His car explodes when Big Ben chimes over the car radio. Cast * Tony Quinn as Professor Hasdane * Harry Fowler as Sammy * Sydney Tafler as Mr. Hunter * Patti Morgan as Jackie * Jacques Cey as Bentley * Richard Shaw as Paul Richards Crititical reception ''The Monthly Film Bulletin ''The Monthly Film Bul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crooked Sky
''The Crooked Sky'' is a low budget 1957 black and white British melodrama/crime film, directed by Henry Cass from a story by Maclean Rogers and Charles F. Vetter.Weaver 2011, p. 18. The film stars Wayne Morris (American actor), Wayne Morris, Anton Diffring and Karin Booth. Plot American detective Mike Conlin (Wayne Morris), teams up with Scotland Yard to catch the villains behind a big counterfeiting ring. After the mysterious death of an American airline radio operator, the Yard suspect the operation may originate in the United States, and Conlin is brought over to help. In London, £500,000 in counterfeit one-pound notes has been smuggled in by Tom Alanson (Guy Kingsley-Poynter), an American radio engineer for a freight line flying between England and the United States. He is in a gang of smugglers but goes to Scotland Yard but two gang members stab him to death. Yard Inspector "Mac" MacAuley (Bruce Seton) believes the forged notes come from the United States. Mac contacts the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professor Tim
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors are usually experts in their field and teachers of the highest rank. In most systems of academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor". In some countries and institutions, the word "professor" is also used in titles of lower ranks such as associate professor and assistant professor; this is particularly the case in the United States, where the unqualified word is also used colloquially to refer to associate and assistant professors as well. This usage would be considered incorrect among other academic communities. However, the otherwise unqualified title "Professor" designated with a capital letter nearly always refers to a full professor. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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